"“If Brazil makes strides in its regulation, it could inspire other countries…” said Francisco Cruz, a law professor

#Brazil, led by the Supreme Court and Justice Moraes, has taken some of the most aggressive steps of any country in tackling online #misinformation, saying it undermines the country’s #democracy.

If tech companies succeed in influencing Brazilian regulation, the #tariffs could deliver a major, if quieter, victory for the American leader and his allies."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/world/americas/brazil-big-tech-trump-tariffs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dk8.M0zl.OKMmSkhPyYBP&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

"“If Brazil makes strides in its regulation, it could inspire other countries…” said Francisco Cruz, a law professor

#Brazil, led by the Supreme Court and Justice Moraes, has taken some of the most aggressive steps of any country in tackling online #misinformation, saying it undermines the country’s #democracy.

If tech companies succeed in influencing Brazilian regulation, the #tariffs could deliver a major, if quieter, victory for the American leader and his allies."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/world/americas/brazil-big-tech-trump-tariffs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dk8.M0zl.OKMmSkhPyYBP&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Agaric Tech Collective
ProPublica
Agaric Tech Collective and 1 other boosted

Rural residents were upset when Oregon released a statewide map estimating property risk from wildfires.

Until then, the impacts of climate change were abstract to many people, one senator said. “This is a very big chicken coming home to roost.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-wildfire-risk-map-rural-homeowners?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News#Oregon#Wildfires#Map#Home#Misinformation#Climate#ClimateChange

Rural residents were upset when Oregon released a statewide map estimating property risk from wildfires.

Until then, the impacts of climate change were abstract to many people, one senator said. “This is a very big chicken coming home to roost.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-wildfire-risk-map-rural-homeowners?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News#Oregon#Wildfires#Map#Home#Misinformation#Climate#ClimateChange

Stop lying about what ChatGPT does to our brains!

https://theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com/p/stop-lying-about-what-chatgpt-does

When #AI is being used, to create absolute nonsense about the effects of AI, which is then shared with millions of people, for no discernible reason... we're in a very weird situation.

#ChatGPT#BadScience#Misinformation

Stop lying about what ChatGPT does to our brains!

https://theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com/p/stop-lying-about-what-chatgpt-does

When #AI is being used, to create absolute nonsense about the effects of AI, which is then shared with millions of people, for no discernible reason... we're in a very weird situation.

#ChatGPT#BadScience#Misinformation

Generative AI assistants are cutting into traditional online search traffic, depriving news sites of visitors and impacting the ad revenue they desperately need, in a blow to an industry already fighting for survival. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/04/tech/ai-search-media-ecosystem/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #chatgpt #ai #fakenews #misinformation #media #journalism #pressfreedom #censorship #newspapers #magazines #internet #publishers

Ulrike Hahn
Tim Chambers
Ulrike Hahn and 1 other boosted

NewsGuard, a company that aims to help identify reliable news sources, has stopped using the labels 'misinformation' and 'disinformation' as they were politicized and partisan. They now explain whether a claim is '[...] explicitly false, AI-generated, unsubstantiated or manipulated'.

What do you think?

By Sophie Culpepper for @niemanlab.

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https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/language-that-once-clarified-is-now-obscuring-newsguard-retires-the-labels-misinformation-and-disinformation/

#Misinformation#Disinformation

NewsGuard, a company that aims to help identify reliable news sources, has stopped using the labels 'misinformation' and 'disinformation' as they were politicized and partisan. They now explain whether a claim is '[...] explicitly false, AI-generated, unsubstantiated or manipulated'.

What do you think?

By Sophie Culpepper for @niemanlab.

👇
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/language-that-once-clarified-is-now-obscuring-newsguard-retires-the-labels-misinformation-and-disinformation/

#Misinformation#Disinformation

@lbnvds @wjmaggos

#Google themself don't care a thing about the garbage and #misinformation on their platform. https://social.coop/@smallcircles/114899129489765020

Witnessing the social dynamics on the cesspit that #Youtube is, is fascinating. Near nothing is genuine, everyone is hustling their channels.

Cool reaction vid? Wait until you see them react the 2nd time on that vid as if it was their 1st. Nice vid of people dancing on techno party, setting the crowd in motion? Staged. And your recommender will serve you more.

Neville Park
Alex, the Hearth Fire
Neville Park and 1 other boosted

"A mere 0.1% of users share 80% of fake news. Twelve accounts – known as the “disinformation dozen” – created most of the vaccine misinformation on Facebook during the pandemic. These few hyperactive users produced enough content to create the false perceptions that many people were vaccine hesitant."

"Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?", The Guardian, Sun 13 Jul 2025
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/13/are-a-few-people-ruining-the-internet-for-the-rest-of-us

Archive link: https://archive.ph/Eu57Y

#misinformation #disinformation #COVID19

"A mere 0.1% of users share 80% of fake news. Twelve accounts – known as the “disinformation dozen” – created most of the vaccine misinformation on Facebook during the pandemic. These few hyperactive users produced enough content to create the false perceptions that many people were vaccine hesitant."

"Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?", The Guardian, Sun 13 Jul 2025
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/13/are-a-few-people-ruining-the-internet-for-the-rest-of-us

Archive link: https://archive.ph/Eu57Y

#misinformation #disinformation #COVID19